On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:50:41PM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:37, Chris wrote: > > Finally, another gentoo user! > > Not the only one here... :-) Indeed. I'm running gentoo on my main box for a few months now. Regarding kernel patches, with just a little grepping in the portage tree I was able to glean the following info... source latency-related info ------- --------------------- ck-sources "in general his kernels are known to be VERY low latency." doesn't say what patches are contained, but based on notes in other sources, I guess LL, PE, and O(1) gaming-sources ebuild contains a URL of a page that tells all: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ ... at which you can see it contains LL, PE, and O(1) among other things. Also read the FAQ, it mentions some notable bugs e.g. hdparm is broken at least with gaming-sources for 2.4.21: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/#faq gentoo-sources "Based heavily on ck-sources-2.4.20-r2..." contains LL,PE,O(1) gs-sources contains LL, PE gentoo-hardened - ck7-base (O(1), preempt, low latency) mm-sources This is for 2.5/2.6 kernels, which I have not really paid attention to. Contains some patches from Andrew Morton. wolf-sources "replaced:LowLatency in favor of lowlatency fixes from latest -AA" Note that you still have to pay attention to configuration options: e.g. if you don't enable lowlatency and preemptible during kernel config, the patches might as well not be there :-) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
